Are the Sheltered Employment Workshops Still Necessary? - Change Factor and Market Conditions

Redefining The Purpose of Sheltered Workshops

Do sheltered workshops enhance employment outcomes for adults with autism spectrum disorder?

This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in sheltered workshops. Individuals from both grou...

Sheltered employment for persons with disabilities

S employment is expanding in many countries with various types of institutions offering an increasing number of positions to persons with disabilities who wish to work. The structures involved are also showing a growing desire for recognition as full participants in the economy and as employing higher professional standards. In fact, many providers of sheltered employment are now using manageme...

Labor market conditions and employment of the mentally ill.

BACKGROUND: The mental health services literature includes assertions that workers with mental illness are at earlier risk of unemployment than other workers when the economy contracts. This possibility is important for several reasons. One is that such a phenomenon would support the argument that the lives of mentally ill persons are made unnecessarily stressful by the stigma of mental illness...

The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change

For many years I have been engaged in psychotherapy with individuals in distress. In recent years I have found myself increasingly concerned with the process of abstracting from that experience the general principles which appear to be involved in it. I have endeavored to discover any orderliness, any unity which seems to inhere in the subtle, complex tissue of interpersonal relationship in whi...